Knitted garment.



Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

TH]: coLummA FLANOGRAPH 60., WASHINGTON, D. c.

RALPH R. JANES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 STANDARD KNITTING MILLS COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

KNITTED GARMENT,

Application filed November 8, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH R. JANES, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Knitted Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and complete description.

My invention relates to knitted garments and particularly to undershirts and garments of like nature, and has for its object the production or" new and improved garments of this kind which, while being pleasing in appearance and comfortable in use,

yet may be easily and quickly made and at 7' less cost thanhas heretofore been possible.

In the drawing accompanying and forming a part of this specification I have illus-' trated a garment embodying my invention and the manner in which the same is made. In this drawingFigure 1 shows an elongated knittedtubeandthe manner in which the same is cut or severed in the middle to form the body portions of two garments. Fig. 2 shows the finished garment, which in this case is an undershirt.

In practising my invention I first provide longitudinally ribbedtubular members such as shown in Fig. 1 suitable in length to form the body portions of two garments. I then sever this double length tube in the middle on a line 2, so laid out that there will result two tubular body portions 1, each having four pointed or inverted V-shaped extensions 3 in the form of isosceles tri angles, all equal in size and equally spaced around the edge of the tubular body portion. These extensions preferably have straight edges and these are finished by sewing strips of braid or lace, 4:, thereon, which strips extend from each of the front extensions to the correspondingextensions in the rear so as to form shoulder pieces or straps 5, as shown in Fig. 2. By these simple operations a complete garment, pleas- Copies of this patent may be obtained for Specification of Letters Patent.

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ing in appearance and comfortable in use, is produced with a minimum amount of labor.

It will further be seen from the foregoing description that by practising my invention all of the fabric is used and this results in further cheapening the cost of the garments without impairing in any way their quality. In the finished garment the l -shaped extensions are so located as to cover the breast completely and give the lower neck and no sleeve cut so much desired in summer underwear. As the edges on which the strips 4: are, sewed are all straight the sewing can be rapidly efi'ected. Furthermore, by cutting the material as above described the shoulder straps are brought into their proper places, so as to be comfortableto the wearer and so that they will not have a tendency to slip from the shoulder, as is frequently the case, with garments now on the market.

While I have only described the preferred form of my improved garment and. one way of practising my improved method, I am aware that modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of my claim.

What I claim is:

In a garment of the character described,

a body portion consisting of a longitudinally ribbed knitted tube of uniform width throughout, and provided at the upper end,

at both front and back, with two integral five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of .Patents, Washington, D. C."

Patented Jan, 318, 1916, 

